Pet Peeves

[ross]

HOV is, High Occupant Vehicle.
toll road is one you pay a fee to drive on, over and above the taxes you already shell out.

Yeah, I've heard of them, just never experienced them. Nor do I want to.

 

[goofyone]

In Georgia we no longer have any toll roads in the state however we now have something even worse, toll lanes. The HOV lanes were apparently not being used to capacity so now they charge people who would not qualify for HOV lane access to use these lanes. The lanes are commonly referred to around here by the derogatory name 'Lexus lanes'. Basically those people who want to move along at 30 MPH on the Atlanta interstates during rush hour can now pay the government even more money for the right to use lanes their state and federal tax money already paid to build and maintain.

Don't even get me started on traffic circle roundabouts that Americans have no idea how to properly use.

If you want to see any even crazier idea that has become popular in the Atlanta area take a look at the "diverging diamond interchange" where we now get to drive on the left at times.o_O

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diverging_diamond_interchange

 

[RKing]

"Don't even get me started on traffic circle roundabouts that Americans have no idea how to properly use. "

Copy a good idea, then expect people who have never seen it to use it correctly ???
Gooberment at work
30MPH in Altanta ,,, every time I go there it's 80 or 5 and little in between !

 

[Bert]

I've been to Texas. Why does Texas have toll roads? That is an East coast thing. Please tell me Texas still has enough room they don't have toll roads. Roundabouts just found their way here, and I personally hate roundabouts. Send them back to Europe where they came from, where a country in Europe is about the same size as a county in Texas. Dallas/Fort Worth can have toll roads and even roundabouts, but please tell me not in real Texas, Not in the Panhandle, not in East Texas, or West Texas. Just Dallas/ Fort Worth.

Sam Houston toll road, goes all the way around Houston I believe!
I really didn't know, until I got home from our vacation and had the bill in the mail!

 

[goofyone]

30MPH in Altanta ,,, every time I go there it's 80 or 5 and little in between !

Only 80?

Seriously, now it's 90 or 5 for the ordinary folks and 30 in the 'Lexus lanes'. o_O

The funny part is that the 'solution' to driers in Atlanta speeding has been to raise speed limits. The speed limit signs on the Atlanta perimeter beltway, I-285, are now variable between 45-70 MPH depending on traffic conditions instead of fixed at 55 as they were before. So now if you are doing 80 on the perimeter highway you would be getting run over by those going 90+.

 

[ncarter124]

Not using turn signals
No headlights when it's dawn, dusk, overcast or raining.. or completely dark for that matter. Just because you can see doesn't mean you can BE SEEN.
Driving in the fast lane and not yielding to faster traffic, which in Nashville seems to be some sort of unwritten law.
People who stop 20-30ft shy of the car in front of them at stoplights.
People who text and/or read while driving.
People that drive a small car and swing wide when taking a corner like they are driving a semi.

Not related to driving:
People who can't figure out the difference of similar words such as their/there/they're, quite/quiet, to/too/two, and so on.
Hashtags
Politicians
People who refuse to work and continue to have kids while bleeding the system dry of welfare and free crap.

I'm sure I have a thousand more but those come to mind right off the bat.

 

[ajetmech]

Ya know, I've been watching during my commute. It's going to be interesting once I get this vehicle.
I can drive in the HOV lane, which normally zips past the other lanes. So at what point do I get out of the HOV and begin to merge across 4 lanes of traffic in order to get to the exit? The sooner I do it, the less of an advantage I have using the HOV. The later I do it, the more I tick off those in the regular lanes.
Add to that, the times where the HOV will be zipping along and the other lanes will be at a dead stop. In order for a vehicle to merge into the regular lanes, they need to slow down to the speed of the other lanes, turn on the blinker, and hope someone lets them in, thereby making everyone in the HOV lane upset.
It's a no win!
Whatever shall I do?
That's it. I'm quitting my job and working from home. I can't stand the pressure of over-thinking things...

You just need to make your Elio look like a banged up piece of crap. I use to have an old truck, faded paint, couple of minor scrapes in the side. You get in heavy traffic and when you need to change lanes, you put on your blinker and all those people with fancy cars just open up space for you, cause they think you don't give a crap, just cause you vehicle looks like crap.

 

[BlioKart]

Tattoos on women

 

[CompTrex]

Radio ads, especially ones for an accountant or financial planner that don't know the difference between a zero and an 'oh' in their phone number. Why would I trust my money to a company that doesn't realize that 'oh' is not a number?

 

[Dusty921]

Not using turn signals
No headlights when it's dawn, dusk, overcast or raining.. or completely dark for that matter. Just because you can see doesn't mean you can BE SEEN.
Driving in the fast lane and not yielding to faster traffic, which in Nashville seems to be some sort of unwritten law.
People who stop 20-30ft shy of the car in front of them at stoplights.
People who text and/or read while driving.
People that drive a small car and swing wide when taking a corner like they are driving a semi.

Not related to driving:
People who can't figure out the difference of similar words such as their/there/they're, quite/quiet, to/too/two, and so on.
Hashtags
Politicians
People who refuse to work and continue to have kids while bleeding the system dry of welfare and free crap.

I'm sure I have a thousand more but those come to mind right off the bat.

North & South Carolina has the same law regarding use of the left lane...
Add:
Stopping over the big white line at a traffic light and blocking the crosswalk.
Taking up two parking spaces, unless of course you own a BMW or Mercedes, they have all sorts of extra privileges.